After finishing the 4-midnight shift on Tuesday, I went home to shower and grab a bite to eat before driving to Marissa's place. Getting there just after 0200hrs, we were all in our pj's and finalising our luggage. We set aside an hour to nap before heading to the airport for our flight at 0830hrs. You can imagine how refreshed and vibrant we were...
Upon our arrival, we checked into our hotel and then headed to my Auntie's place for the traditional Chinese New Years Eve 'Reunion' dinner.
Christina and I helped my auntie prepare food; as always, there were heaps of New Year goodies to nibble on before dinner.
My cousins made it to dinner - we shared a magnum of Vasse Felix Theatre Cabernet I had brought all the way from Margaret River.It was also Christina's birthday - so how fitting to celebrate her birthday -
After dinner we went for a walk around the very crowded Chinatown. Back at our hotel at 0200hrs, all we wanted was a shower and to crawl into bed. Alas! Our shower was nothing but a dribble of water droplets! We ended up lugging our luggage to another room on the floor below us but the shower there was no better - and the beds were made up with dirty, yellowed sheets. Horrified, but oh so so tired, we had a shower, packed and carried our luggage back upstairs to our original room to sleep. Needless to say, we checked out the next day and went to the hotel Marissa, Christina and I had stayed at last time were in Singapore - the Novotel in Clarke Quay.
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